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Islamic Finance 2015 | Major Markets, Real Reform

Best Islamic Financial Institutions | Introduction Islamic finance is breaking out, as long-awaited regulatory reform takes hold in key nations, boosting transparency and driving new business.

Banking

Offshore Blues For Private Banking

Special Report | Private Banking Offshore banking, the booking and management of assets outside an individual’s country of domicile, has taken a beating since the financial crisis.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Pension Fund Managers Assailed On Many Fronts

Special Report | Pensions & Benefits Management Combating economic trends, regulators and even demographics, funds are forced to think outside the box.

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Winners’ Profile | Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2015

Annual Awards honoring the Best Islamic Financial Institutions in the world.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE METRICS | PROFITS ARE A STRONG PREDICTOR OF COMPANY HEALTH

Management | Metrics Corporations and analysts turn to scores of metrics—return on assets, working capital and others—to determine a company’s financial health. Another, the ratio of debt to internal funds, is one of the most widely used benchmarks. But a new study suggests that the debt-to-funds ratio isn’t all that accurate in predicting or explaining default risk.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NICARAGUA’S GRAND CANAL AMBITIONS FAIL TO WOO VOTERS

Newsmakers | Nicaragua When Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega announced last December a plan to construct a controversial transoceanic waterway that would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal, he vowed the project would create jobs and bring prosperity to the hemisphere’s second-poorest nation.

Banking

ANDREW SPINDLER: BANKERS WITHOUT BORDERS

Global Salon Global Finance sat down recently with Andrew Spindler, president and CEO of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, which has spread the gospel of sound financial systems to the developing world for the better part of a quarter of a century.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BRAZIL: SMOOTH SAILING FOR PETROBRAS CEO?

Newsmakers | Brazil Aldemir Bendine became one of Brazil’s poster boys for success while at the helm of Banco do Brasil, but his new role as chief executive of the country’s oil giant, Petrobras, is causing him headaches.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DELOITTE: BIG 4 ACCOUNTING FIRM APPOINTS 1ST US FEMALE CEO

Newsmakers | United States A new crack appeared in the corporate glass ceiling in February, when Cathy Engelbert was appointed CEO of Deloitte US, becoming the first woman to lead one of the Big Four audit and consulting firms in the United States.

Banking

INDIA: UNBANKED TO BENEFIT FROM NEW PAYMENT & FINANCE BANKS

Milestones | India The Reserve Bank of India’s recent bid to offer licenses for setting up small finance and payment banks has elicited an overwhelming response, with at least 113 companies entering the fray.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

RATING AGENCIES: S&P SETTLEMENT UNLIKELY TO BRING ANY CHANGE FOR CORPORATE ISSUERS

Trends | Credit Ratings More than six years after the housing market crashed—dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it—Standard & Poor’s settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown. The price was relatively cheap, as these things go: $1.4 billion with no admission of wrongdoing.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING FIGHTER CHAIRS KEY VATICAN UNIT

Vatican | Newsmakers René Brülhart, known as the “James Bond of the financial world” for his high-profile role in cases such as the return of assets from Saddam Hussein to post-war Iraq and the uncovering of the Siemens bribery scandal, has become chairman of the Vatican’s anti-money-laundering unit.